Judges 6:6 KJV — MannaFest

Judges 6:6

And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the Lord.

KJV

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ASV

And Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children of Israel cried unto Jehovah.

WEB

Israel was greatly impoverished by Midian, and the Israelites cried out to the LORD.

YLT

And Israel is very weak from the presence of Midian, and the sons of Israel cry unto Jehovah.

DBT

And Israel was greatly impoverished because of Midian. And the children of Israel cried to Jehovah.

About this book

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Judges — The post-conquest slide into cyclical apostasy. Twelve judges delivering Israel from successive oppressors, a pattern repeating seven times, and an appendix whose violence diagnoses a nation with no king.

Author: Anonymous; rabbinic tradition attributes to Samuel (Bava Batra 14b)
Date: Events c. 1375–1050 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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Psalms 107:13
Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
Judges 3:9
And when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.
Jeremiah 5:17
And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
Psalms 50:15
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Psalms 106:43–44
Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

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This fruitful land was a great temptation to them; and the sloth and luxury into which the Israelites had sunk by forty years' rest made them and their substance an easy prey to them.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Thus would he show how ready he is to forgive, how swift he is to show mercy, and how inclinable to hear prayer, that sinners may be encouraged to return and repent, Ps. cxxx. The method God took of working deliverance for them. Before he sent an angel to raise them up a saviour he sent a prophet to reprove them for sin, and to bring them to repentance,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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